Big Jubilee List

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In honour of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee as monarch, ten books from each decade of her reign have been chosen by an expert panel of librarians, booksellers and literature specialists.
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1
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
47,469 members
1,050 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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2
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,424 members
1,236 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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3
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
43,890 members
805 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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4
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
19,134 members
523 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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5
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
9,446 members
272 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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6
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
52,272 members
2,239 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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7
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,625 members
416 reviews
4
2 Members
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8
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
12,568 members
189 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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9
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
11,834 members
298 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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10
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
9,993 members
271 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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11
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
8,374 members
161 reviews
4
2 Members
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12
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,902 members
317 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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13
The Girls of Slender Means
by Muriel Spark
1,487 members
62 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
14
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
3,737 members
156 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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15
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,520 members
269 reviews
4
2 Members
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16
A Grain of Wheat
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1,123 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
17
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
14,995 members
267 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
gypsysmom
18
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
15,487 members
699 reviews
4
Member
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19
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by John le Carré
9,676 members
249 reviews
4
Member
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20
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
21,644 members
405 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
21
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
6,170 members
128 reviews
3.8
Member
gypsysmom
22
Small Island
by Andrea Levy
4,263 members
146 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
23
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
5,902 members
268 reviews
3.8
Member
gypsysmom
24
The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch
4,121 members
107 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
25
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
4,146 members
121 reviews
4.1
Member
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26
A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
3,853 members
73 reviews
3.8
Member
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27
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
2,982 members
68 reviews
4.1
Member
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28
Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
2,251 members
70 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
29
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
4,313 members
166 reviews
4.2
Member
gypsysmom
30
Omeros
by Derek Walcott
1,308 members
22 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
31
The Guide
by R. K. Narayan
1,088 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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32
The Whale Rider
by Witi Ihimaera
1,583 members
49 reviews
3.8
Member
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33
Clear Light of Day
by Anita Desai
788 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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34
Arrow of God
by Chinua Achebe
1,463 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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35
Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
9,389 members
106 reviews
4.2
36
The Secret River
by Kate Grenville
2,966 members
134 reviews
3.8
37
Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
2,382 members
116 reviews
3.9
38
The Night Tiger
by Yangsze Choo
1,657 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
39
The Promise
by Damon Galgut
1,493 members
76 reviews
4
40
To Sir, With Love
by E. R. Braithwaite
1,417 members
33 reviews
3.9
41
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
by Alice Munro
1,386 members
43 reviews
4
42
The Book of Night Women
by Marlon James
1,268 members
44 reviews
½ 4.4
43
The Boat
by Nam Le
1,128 members
40 reviews
½ 3.7
44
The Lonely Londoners
by Sam Selvon
1,037 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
45
Paradise
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
851 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
46
Death of a Naturalist
by Seamus Heaney
812 members
9 reviews
4
47
A Golden Age
by Tahmima Anam
758 members
44 reviews
½ 3.7
48
The Memory of Love
by Aminatta Forna
751 members
47 reviews
3.9
49
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
by Ayi Kwei Armah
586 members
1 review
3.8
50
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town
by Amos Tutuola
584 members
18 reviews
½ 3.5
51
The Interrogation
by J.M.G. Le Clézio
528 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3
52
A Passage North
by Anuk Arudpragasam
450 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
53
Our Lady of the Nile
by Scholastique Mukasonga
395 members
24 reviews
3.9
54
In the Castle of My Skin
by George Lamming
394 members
6 reviews
½ 3.3
55
Tsotsi
by Athol Fugard
354 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
56
How We Disappeared
by Jing-Jing Lee
323 members
11 reviews
4
57
The Blue Bedspread
by Raj Kamal Jha
303 members
7 reviews
3
58
Chinaman
by Shehan Karunatilaka
266 members
10 reviews
3.9
59
Sunlight on a Broken Column
by Attia Hosain
227 members
7 reviews
3.8
60
One Moonlit Night
by Caradog Prichard
181 members
3 reviews
3.8
61
The Crow Eaters
by Bapsi Sidhwa
173 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
62
Salt
by Earl Lovelace
158 members
½ 3.7
63
Beka Lamb
by Zee Edgell
158 members
8 reviews
½ 3.3
64
The Adoption Papers
by Jackie Kay
91 members
3 reviews
3.9
65
The Bone Readers
by Jacob Ross
91 members
7 reviews
3.8
66
Summer Lightning and Other Stories
by Olive Senior
83 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
67
My Bones and My Flute
by Edgar Mittelholzer
70 members
3 reviews
2.9
68
When Rain Clouds Gather {and} Maru
by Bessie Head
47 members
1 review
½ 4.3
69
The Hills Were Joyful Together
by Roger Mais
39 members
3 reviews
4
70
The Nowhere Man
by Kamala Markandaya
22 members